ibe an abstract data model of protein structures by representing the geometry of proteins using spatial data types and present a framework for fast structural similarity search bas...
Named entities (e.g., "Kofi Annan", "Coca-Cola", "Second World War") are ubiquitous in web pages and other types of document and often provide a simpl...
Felix Weigel, Klaus U. Schulz, Levin Brunner, Edua...
In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
We consider the complexity of join problems, focusing on equijoins, spatial-overlap joins, and set-containment joins. We use a graph pebbling model to characterize these joins com...
Jin-yi Cai, Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Raghav Ka...
This paper presents an instance based approach to diagnosing failures in computing systems. Owing to the fact that a large portion of occurred failures are repeated ones, our meth...